Cash and parcel carrier



m0 Model.)

B'. A. OSGOOD.

HASH AND PARGEL GARRIER.

Patented June 10, 1884.

'UNITED Srn'rns Partnr @germerG BYBOX A. OSGQOD, OF VAKEFIELD,MASSACHUSETTS.

CSH AND PARCEL CARRlER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NQ. 300,279, dated June 10,188i Application filed May 3, 1884. (No model.)

'b @ZZ 'whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, BYRON A. Oseoon, of XVakeiield, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Cash and Parcel Carriers; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to cash or parcel carriers in which a track isshifted in elevation at one end in order to cause the car to go andreturn by gravity.

The invention consists in devices for supporting the movable end of thewire, and in devices for giving an initial impulse to the car, all asset forth hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a side elevation ofthedevices foi-holding the movable end of wire and for giving impulse tothe car. Fig. 2 shows more clearly the catch mechanism.

It is designed that the shifting end of the wire shall be at thesalesmans station, so that he can operate the mechanism to send the carand also adjust the way for the return of the car. In shifting the wireupon a straight bar or post diiiicultyis experienced in the binding orincreased friction of the mechanism which connects the wire to the baror post, owing to the greatendistance between the points of upper andlower movement and the opposite iiXed point of the wire at the otherend. In order to remedy this difficulty and at the Sametime provide aneat and convenient means for supporting the movable wire, I havedevised asuspended bar, B. This is supported from the ceiling by achain, cord, or wire attached to one end, and it is connected to thewall of the room, or to any convenient support, by guys b b, which arestretched in the same vertical plane with the main wire or way A, so asto hold the post or bar against the tension ofthe said wire A. The wireA is connected by means of a yoke,l n, to a wheel, g. The yoke embracesthe bar B, and the wheel is provided with flanges and bears upon the barB, so that the bar takes the whole strain of the wire, and the wire maybe easily shifted up and down, the wheel' moving freely over the bar. Inorder to conveniently raise and lower the end of the wire, I haveprovided cords 'm and l, the

latter hanging directly down from the yoke n and the former passing overthe pulley j", supported in a cross-bar, b, from theA top ofthe bar B.The guys b b diverge from each other, one inclining upward and the otherdownward toward their point of attachment to the wall. IVhen the wheelbears upon the center of the bar B, the strain is equal upon each guy;but when the wheel is moving vto its upper and lower position theguy-wires yield, so as to compensate for the increase in distance, sincethe bar turns slightly, and thereby changes the direction of the guys.

In a system of this kind, where the car is depending upon gravity, theinitial movement is very slow, and although it acquires speed before itreaches the terminus there is consid erable timelost. ThisI have soughtto remedy by giving initial impulse to the car when theend of the wireis raised, in order to move it from the salesman to the cashier. rI`hisis mainly effected by a lever. s, which is pivoted upon a standard, S,upon the yoke n. This lever is forked at its lower end and straddles thewire A. Its upper end is bent in somewhat bell-crank form, and as theend of the wire is moved it comes into contact with the stop a on theupper end of thepost, or on the cross-bar on said upper end. The forkedend ofthe lever extends below the wire when the lever is pushed backtoward the bar B, and is held back by a light spring, and the rubberstop 3 on the standard S breaks the force of the shock of .the car. Thecar is provided with apivoted hook, w, which is held up by a lightspring, y, and the car has avertical shoulder, o. The lever s ordinarilywill be drawn back in the position shown in Fig. 2, anda-s the carapproaches the hook will pass under the lever, thus securing the carinto position. lVhen it thus comes into Contact with the lever, the wireis in its lower position. pulling on the cord m the end of the wire israised, and when the bent end of the lever s comes in contact with thestop a the lower end of the lever is forcibly thrown out, firstreleasing the car by leaving the hook, and then striking against theshoulder z, giving tliecar aninitial impulse, which impulse will bedetermined by the force that the operator uses to raise the wire. rllhisstarts the car quickly and greatly lessens the time required for itsmovement to the other end. rlDhe car may be provided with a spring IOOdirection when the cashier releases it by movement of the handle fromthe catch G.

I do not herein claim, broadly, the vertical. adjustment of the end ofthe wire A.

Vhat I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

l. In a cash and parcel system, a suspended bar, B, a wireway providedwith a wheel and yoke at the salesman s station, said Wheel bearing onthe bar B, guys for holding the said bar, and means, substantially asdescribed, for raising and lowering the end of the wire, all combinedsubstantially as described.

2. In a cash and parcel system7 a wireway,

one end thereof being vertically movable by means substantially asdescribed, a lever movin g with theI wire and adapted to strike againsta stationary stud in its upward movement and to give an impetus to thecar automatically, substantially as described.

3. In combination with the end of a wireway vertically movable by meanssubstantially as described, and with a stop, a lever, s, provided with aspring, and forked to straddle the wire, and adapted to the catch of thecar, whereby the lever acts as a catch and to push the car,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing` Witnesses.

BYRON A. OSGOOD.

Vitn esses:

E. O. HOWARD, D. F CRANE.

